Integrative Movement Medicine (IMM) is a comprehensive clinical approach to working with movement artists, yoga practitioners, dancers, and martial artists.  Also climbers, paddlers, divers, surfers, skiers, runners, and bodybuilders....you get the picture.  
It is for all of you who seek to discover adventure and play in your bodies and in your lives.

What is Integrative Movement Medicine (IMM)?

Integrative Movement Medicine is a personalized healthcare approach to working with people who lead movement-oriented lives.  It involves both clinical and lifestyle methods that improve performance, increase flexibility, promote stamina, quicken recovery, treat injuries, and help contribute to the balancing of an active life.

Jake has been developing this approach since well before he was formally trained in acupuncture or integrative medicine.  Born with a congenital ankle issue, he required surgery as an infant.  Throughout childhood and adolescence he experienced numerous bouts of debility and extreme pain.  As a young child he wore leg braces and there were periods he was unable to walk.  

When Jake couldn't walk, out of necessity he would crawl, and when he couldn't walk well he used a cane.  With an urge to move, he found creative solutions to stay active and inspired.  

Jake's IMM method draws from wisdom learned from his physical struggles, his ingenuity through physical training, as well over 20 years of martial arts study.  He's refined this through his academic pursuits into kinesiology and training, soft-tissue therapy, sports medicine, and Chinese & Japanese Medicine.  Integrative Movement Medicine is visionary and both acknowledges and harnesses our human potential to be become stronger, more flexible, and more resilient.

What's Involved?

The first thing you can expect at an appointment is that you willl go thorough a health history intake and evaluation.  This will include paperwork, discussion, musculoskeletal examination, and movement screening.  Once Jake has an idea of what your goals are and what's going on with your body, he will present to you a personalized program to help you meet your goals.  Keep in mind...
 

...If you want to work with Jake, be prepared for homework!